Bad Eventer started TRYING to 3 day event as a young child, and has continued for, cough, decades being BAD at Eventing. This is her story!

We’re not ready yet!

It takes her a little while for her to chill the F out relax and get her wits about her. So we have a fairly deliberate warm up.

We do quite a few serpentines,

bend this way

bend that way

lots of transitions

and it takes her a good 10 minutes before we can do some version of canter

that isn’t completely jackhammer like

I’m used to losing my mind all on my own warming up myself. I have “a zone.”

This show was different.

This was the big one, and The Fearless Leader was there to help.

6 minutes in he suggested I counter canter.

I knew this was a bad idea.

Miss tightpants wasn’t loose enough and it was not going to go well.

I had this little mental fight where I thought, “she’s not ready, she’s going to swap leads and this will be a thing, the last thing I want her to do is swap leads before we go in for our FEI test……….”

And then I decided to just do it.

She swapped.

And I had an immediate nervous breakdown. I rode over to the Fearless Leader and said,

“SHE’S NOT READY YET!!!!!!”

So we did some more warm up and may have settled down a bit.

Unfortunately, when I went to enter the ring someone getting a vendor tent ready dropped what sounded like a bucket full of chains right behind my sharp little thing and we BOLTED into the ring at A.